Data Center News

IDB provides $100 million loan to improve connectivity in Argentina

Argentina

The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a digital infrastructure loan of $100 million repayable in 25 years to improve connectivity in Argentina. With the loan, the development of digital connectivity in remote areas will become a reality. The loan will also be used to improve the cap...

Digital Realty makes strategic investment in AtlasEdge

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty has reached an agreement to make a strategic investment in AtlasEdge Data Centres. The investment will also see Digital Realty’s Executive VP, Strategic & Business Segments, Giuliano Di Vitantonio, join AtlasEdge as CEO, starting January 2022. AtlasEdge delivers smooth, loca...

What's ahead for Talen Energy's cumulus data center project

Talen Energy’s Cumulus hyperscale data center in Salem Township was given the go-ahead by officials just a few two weeks ago and is pinned to bring thousands of new jobs and economic opportunities to the area. This includes $1-3 million in property taxes for the township. On top of these econo...

Lamda Hellix breaks ground on Athens-3 data center in Greece

Digital Realty: ATH3

Greece-based data center firm Lamda Hellix has begun work on a new data center close to Athens. Lamda Hellix revealed that the Athens-3 facility would have a capacity of 20MW. The size will also make it the largest data center in Greece. Athens-3 will also have 8,600 square meters (92,500 squa...

Groningen municipality: New large data center on the way?

Netherlands

Discussions are being had around the possibility of a new data center in the industrial district of Westpoort near Groningen, and whether or not it gets the go-ahead will be determined by Groningen City Council. According to a PDF document, the proposed data center would occupy 20 hectares, an...

Microsoft's transparency bid: Cloud emissions dashboard now generally available

Microsoft Azure

In its latest sustainability effort, Microsoft has announced that its Emissions Impact Dashboard, first announced in January 2020, is now widely available. According to the tech giant, this tool enables greater transparency and allows users to gain insight into greenhouse gas emissions associa...

Is a new data center to move into Pitt County?

As reported by WITN, there are murmurs in Pitt County that a data center may be on its way. This news has not been well received by locals, who have voiced concerns around the facility, which is to be proposed next to Belvoir Elementary School. Locals are apprehensive about potential noise pol...

Data centers at the Innovation Summit World Tour 2021

The Innovation Summit World Tour 2021 has been underway this week, where important discussions around how to cut CO2 emissions and accelerate climate change action are being had. The annual summit launched by Schneider Electric emphasized the urgent need to "act fast" to decarbonize. According...

OVHcloud suffers outage affecting global backbone

OVH Group

French colocation and cloud provider OVHcloud has experienced a global outage. The company experienced an outage that lasted more than one hour when it started at around 7:00 UTC. OVH revealed that a maintenance reconfiguration error caused it. Besides, OVHcloud’s status page was brought down ...

Stack Infrastructure is expanding into the Asia Pacific region

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE

Stack Infrastructure has revealed its plan to expand into the Asia Pacific region. The company is planning to open a regional headquarters in Singapore. It would also expand into Osaka and Tokyo immediately before entering into Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, and other Asia Pa...

MNC to partner with Infokom for data center development in Lido resort city Indonesia

Indonesia

MNC Land and Infokom have signed a deal to develop a data center in a new resort city south of Jakarta, Indonesia. MNC Land is a subsidiary of MNC Group, an Indonesian conglomerate. West Java, Lido City, is located to the south of Bogor City, and it is an MNC project to create a large resort a...

Facebook acquires land in Denmark for potential data center development

Meta

Facebook has acquired 212 hectares of land in Andrup in Esbjerg, Denmark, for DKK 277 million ($43 million). The Esbjerg municipal announced that Facebook could start planning and surveying the land for building a data center in the future. Mayor Jesper Frost Rasmussen of Esbjerg municipal was...

Google acquires land in Fredericia, Denmark for potential data center development

Hyperscale Data Center

Google has successfully bought more land in Denmark for potential data center developments. The search engine giant bought 1.29 million square feet (120,000 square meters) of land in Taulov, in Fredericia municipality, Denmark. Earlier in June 2017, Google bought a 73.2 hectare (7.8 million sq...

Interxion plans to invest €1 billion ($1.15bn) in 130MW Paris data center campus

InterXion

According to Le Monde Informatique, Interxion has plans to build a new data center campus in the Essonne region of France. Interxion filed a building permit with the DDE asking to operate a 15-hectare land in Les Ulis/Villeiuste. The site will also have a power supply of 130MW. Although det...

Vantage is expanding into Johannesburg, South Africa

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers is expanding into Africa by breaking ground on a new 80MW campus in Johannesburg, South Africa. The campus will be developed in phases, with the first 16MW phase scheduled to be completed in 2022. The new facility is located in Waterfall City in Johannesburg. Also, the ...

Edge Centres expanding in Victoria, Australia

EC3 Bendigo

Edge Centres has announced that it has broken ground on a new edge facility center in Traralgon, Victoria. The new facility named EC8 will be Edge Centres’ second facility in Victoria after it opened EC3 in Bendigo, Victoria. Edge Centres plans to have four new facilities in operation by Novem...

Oracle opens underground data center in Jerusalem, Israel

Oracle

Oracle has announced that it has opened a Cloud region in Israel. With the underground data center opening in Jerusalem, Oracle has become the first hyperscale firm to open a Cloud region in the country. CEO of Oracle, Safra Katz, said organizations and government bodies need to transit to the...

Landmark Dividend buys 1.2 million square feet of data center space in Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia

Landmark Dividend, which DigitalBridge acquired earlier in the year, has acquired what it refers to as a “portfolio of assets” in Northern Virginia. It acquired 1.2 million square feet of data center space within the Quantum Park in Northern Virginia. According to Landmark Dividend, the proper...

CityFibre files for permission to develop data center cabins in Newark, Nottinghamshire

United Kingdom

UK fiber firm CityFibre has applied for permission to install two data center cabins in Newark, Nottinghamshire. It filed with Newark and Sherwood District Council to install two data center cabins and associated air conditioning units, meter cabinet and fence, and generators on land on Cliff ...

QazCloud launches data center in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

QazCloud has unveiled its new data center in Kosshy, in the Akmola region in Kazakhstan. The data center is built to Tier II standards with a total area of 2,787 square feet (259 square meters). The facility also has space for 100 racks. QazCloud was founded in 2018, and it provides hosting, c...